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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 73 points 22 hours ago (11 children)

This is why the fascist billionaires are carrying out their great takeover. They know the jig is up and everything's going to crumble down and no one will escape it.

They just want to rob whatever they still can before they too croak. Thre is no great plan for their survival beyond a few years in an underground bunker, either...

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 71 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

It’s a hilariously incompetent strategy by the rich because they’re more dependent on a functioning society than any other group. You can tell they’re not smart nor good leaders when they build luxury bunkers in New Zealand because those won’t save them from losing virtually (and possibly literally) everything they have. They have everything to lose and the only thing they need to do to keep their wealth and power is to contribute to the society they’re living off of. They’re failing miserably because they lack compassion. It will be their downfall.

[–] fallowseed@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

but isn't their strategy literally how they have 90 percent of the wealth? seems a crushingly effective strategy. what do you suppose their downfall looks like? does it happen before or after ours?

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

There's a limit, and at this rate we are bound to get there eventually.

Look at it this way...either there is a finite amount of money, and the more it is amassed by a handful of people, the less there is for others to survive. Or there is an infinite amount of money, and it's worthless.

There really should've been a point of exponentially diminishing returns on personal wealth, like a long time ago. There shouldn't have been any super-rich after the steel barons of the early 20th century. You'd think we would've learned our lesson then. Especially since by then we had universal suffrage, and not just white wealthy male landowners were voting.

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